Vacationing in Kent

Come July, I will get to spend my first full week of vacation with my 2.5 yr old daughter. Well our first full week together full stop actually.

I've been thinking of where to go and I want something that's not too far away, no more than 4 hours of driving. My sister lives 4hours away and we've managed that in by car last year.

I've started looking at renting a holiday home in Kent. Getting from Belgium to Folkestone by Eurotunnel only takes a good 3.5 hours. So something relatively close by in Kent, possibly on the coast would be cool.

I've looked around one or two websites and there's a variety of little 2 bedroom vacation homes around Ken. Some right at the seaside, some nearby but I don't really know the area too well. I'm not sure what towns are a definite avoid and which are cool.

Not sure I have any recommendations but I will say Dover is a shit hole so avoid. Though the castle there is actually well worth a day trip if you are at all into that sort thing. It has Roman, Saxon, Norman, Napoleonic and WW2 bits to see.

Really what you are going to find a lot of if you go to Kent or Sussex is old seaside resorts and they are all pretty similar. So think Brighton if you have been there as an example and you will get the general idea.

Hastings is one of these but is more run down than most so that would be at the lower end of the spectrum. Brighton is probably at up the upper end.

LeoliansBro wrote:
Canterbury, Whitstable if you like seafood, or a cottage somewhere proper countrified.

I'd do the latter tbh.

It's also an option. It's what I started out looking for but then these sea-side places popped up whilst I was looking into holiday homes to rent and I thought it might be cool for the little one to be across the road from a beach.

You will be astonished at what beauty is to behold in Gillingham, the Train Station is a modern architectural wonder, and Priestfield road, the mighty Gillingham FC's ground is just a scant 5 minutes from the station (if your being chased by the inbred locals)